NPR - Satchmo in his adolescence: 1915 film clip may show young Louis Armstrong From there, Karst got to work piecing together bits of evidence to support his hunch. He reached out to Dr. Kurt Luther, a professor at Virginia Tech known for his work identifying people in Civil War-era photographs, for advice, and compared the facial features of the boy in the video to those seen in the earliest known images of Armstrong. Karst also accessed census records to verify the small number of black newsboys on the New Orleans records at the time the film was taken. - College of Engineering

The Independent - Science news in brief: From talking to plants to a beluga-narwhal hybrid“We’ve seen the unique freezing dynamics of bubbles in nature, but we’ve never understood the physics behind it,” says Jonathan Boreyko, who studies condensation and frost phenomena at Virginia Tech.  - College of Engineering

Houston Chronicle - A NASA legend: Christopher Kraft wrote the rule book for Mission Control, flight operations After graduating from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — now Virginia Tech — in 1944 with a degree in aeronautical engineering, he worked at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Virginia as a flight-test engineer. “I was able, from the ground, to take advantage of my knowledge,” he said. “I started thinking about how to make (spaceflight) safer, how to take advantage of test flights by combining what to do on the ground with what to do in space.”  - College of Engineering

Architect Magazine - FutureHaus arrives in Alexandria Virginia Tech’s FutureHaus will be on display in Alexandria, Va., for the summer, marking the final destination in a tour following its win in the 2018 Solar Decathlon Middle East. FutureHaus arrived in Alexandria following a two-week installation in New York’s Times Square for NYCxDesign, during which an estimated 100,000 people visited the innovative model house. For the design team, Alexandria’s National Landing neighborhood was the obvious next stop for the FutureHaus, because it is the future location of Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus and Amazon’s HQ2. Also picked up by Zebra and DCist. - College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Scientific American - Wheat plants "Sneeze" and spread diseaseJonathan Boreyko interviewed about his research for Christopher Intagliata’s “Physics 60-Second Science” podcast. - College of Engineering

CBS Minnesota via Yahoo News - Virginia Tech app aims to harness the power of the 'Queen Stomp' That refers to the stomp-stomp-clap rhythm that kicks off Queen's "We Will Rock You" (3:09). WCCO Mid-Morning - June 28, 2019.

Media Post - Why Facebook, Google advertising during 2016 presidential election lacked paid-for disclaimers A Virginia Tech research team has recently released details from its investigation into the roles that Facebook and Google played in digital advertising around the U.S. presidential election in 2016. The tech companies reportedly stopped the Federal Election Commission's efforts to regulate digital political advertising at that time. - College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Chronicle of Higher Education - A tech-based model to teach math has spread across higher education. but for some students, could it do more harm than good? At Virginia Tech, administrators attribute the emporium model’s success to several factors. For one, the university has developed its own interactive textbooks rather than choosing an off-the-shelf product for its courses. Being able to modify the courseware based on student feedback has been important, says Terri Bourdon, manager of the campus Math Emporium, which has more than 500 workstations that serve about 6,000 students a year.

Inside Higher Ed - A double-edged sword Matthew Gabriele, chair of the department of religion and culture at Virginia Tech, said the "knee-jerk reaction when people say, 'Don't be a professor' means that people don't want to be talked down to." - College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Total Campus Report - Virginia Tech named G. Don Taylor, vice provost for learning systems innovation and effectiveness, as interim vice president for research and innovation, effective July 15. In the position, Taylor will report directly to the provost and executive vice president and will provide leadership for VT's research enterprise and entrepreneurial culture.